ImRubic

If this past month is we what can expect to see in the future than I am hopeful. I hope this continues and not something to expect once in a blue moon. I understand currently it may be hard considering everyone's transition though.

The biggest key issue I personally see is the negative impact XP handouts have on this game. I recognize player engagement doesn't change within recent times but I'd look at projecting that at something such as OSRS or a time before MTX was as strong as it was in RS3 to really understand the impact it has had on the game.

I think events such as the Master Crafting event are steps in the right direction but I think the Easter event was several steps backwards. No one is asking for a complex holiday, but rather one where very little new assets are created and then re-used and piled upon each year. All of that being in the form of a miniquest, something with a puzzle/interactions not just dialogue and an item turn in.

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On a separate note, I really hope we can get:

• A revamped website
• Better API

Revamped website is coming! I have been very vocal about this internally and have some great support for getting this changed up. :) Again, another area we are trying to change how we work. Web is a beast!

What would you like for better API's? Do you have a wish list?

Thank you for the feedback Sheva. It takes a team to get there for sure, they do a great job looking through all the player feedback and choosing some good updates! Definitely takes time to unfold bigger directional changes. Hardest part is to keep it going at a sustainable pace, challenge ourselves, innovate when we can and not become complacent/fall back into older patterns. Still so much more we can do and I personally have a lot learn ahead about our players and RS. I know a lot more than I did 8 months ago :) Best part we can keep talking!

Very happy with how players enjoy Archaeology and seeing the difference a Ninja can make!

wildman444

I seriously love what you’ve guys been doing to RS3 the last couple of months. Please keep up the motivation and the hype, and don’t let this game die over the next 5+ years.❤️ Edit: MORE RS3 STREAMS!!! Even if it’s just sundays cup of tea with the jagex team once a month.

Thank you for the feedback! We were able to re-align some resources, purpose, focus and efforts differently to do these kind of releases faster along side the bigger content. The priority, attention and pace has changed and we are discussion the content with our players a bit differently too. Starting to see some off the benefits of the changes. :)

Also, I like the way you think about live streams. I have been chatting with the community team about them. Would like to see some things changed up on our format and programming, open to some ideas from the community tbh. Still WIP, but would like to try some new things out.

RS is nowhere near dying :) Imagine how many Ninja strikes we can accomplish in just a year!

Hi Gecu! Thank you for taking the time to write this wonderful note, and grateful you keep giving us an opportunity to try and put a smile on your face! We shared your message with the RS team and it will make its way into many more of my discussions throughout the week!

This has certainly been a player favorite release, the team produced a well rounded quality piece of content and we had an exciting launch campaign. Hope to do more this way!

Human connection, even digitally is meaningful :)

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Oh, we can't wait to bring to iOS !

Dwarvenyak

Outstanding quality. Seriously.

We scored on a couple newish hires in both Creative Services and Product Marketing and starting to see their impact in our work. :)

cirdanlunae

Wait wait wait. What's Zaros doing there? And "War is coming?"!!!!!

hmmm ....

TZVforever

Is this a members only skill?

You can play up to level 20 for Free to Play

iBlazit

This is the best trailer I have ever seen for RuneScape, if I imagine I was watching this without playing RS I sure as hell would be 100% inclined to try it out.

And as a veteran it just makes me want to try archaeology even more, great, great great job, really, wow.

We also have a great new logo from the same creative services team too :)

Lots of DDOS attacks on online games in the past week.

I have the same challenge even with relatively good eye sight, and agree with your points!

We just started looking UI scaling and vector fonts to help with this. One of our engineers showed me a demo of UI scaling the other day and the potential looks really great! Lots of things to figure out still, for example what are the best out of the box experience for certain screen sizes i.e. 4K screen vs 1440p, should we even take a look at 1080p defaults now? Also we need to figure out what the user controls look like, I see us potentially giving some slider control to players. And what what point do our UI's look low quality upscaled. will have to look at uprezzing assets potentially.

Also if we combine this capability with vector fonts, will it present us other issues on the UI front, i.e. would some of them need to be re-done all together??

Mod Hypnose is looking at this and would expect for him to start demoing this capability on a future live stream, stay tuned!

Mod Warden

Thank you for the alert and additional follow up for the community!

Hello bhavesh. Sorry to hear you are having issues with our game client. How often have you been experiencing this? Is it recent or an issue for a much longer time? How long does it take for your game client to load generally?

I'll chat with the team to investigate with you further. Thank you

Hi Nosi, I agree with your perspective. One of the missions I gave our team this year is to connect lore and story to everything that we can. Things like Yak Track, cosmetics and even for how game is monetized are no exception. We want it to feel more natural to other aspects of our game and feel less disconnected.

Throughout this year you will see a lot more of of how we build canon into all things and should see these changes on the next Yak Track. This will be in both in game and out of game efforts.

It takes a bit of time to re-work, re-wire, how we do things and change course with our team but we are already well underway with this effort for 2020 :)

nosi40

Hi Warden,

Thanks for the response. I understand that events and updates are planned out ahead of time and that future updates might have the changes you're talking about.

I believe that even simple things like a graphical rework can be tied into the story. A few years ago, catherby was updated graphically. And more recently, burthrope. But there is no in game story behind those changes. Some may feel there doesn't have to be. And to some extent I agree.

But, wouldn't it be nice to get an update that is actually connected to the story. Maybe there was a natural disasters that destroyed that town and you need to use construction to help rebuild it. And that could take maybe 5 minutes from the players perspective but once the rebuilding is done, the area becomes graphically updated.

It's things like this that will go a long way.

make sense as well. I have shared this post with the design team. I know they love story and narrative as much as you do, will nudge them to chime in :)